Wasco-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Markman, Marvin L. June 7, 2005
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com April 8, 2006, 1:20 pm

The Dalles Chronicle, June 16, 2005
     Longtime The Dalles area wheat rancher and community activist Marvin L. 
Markman, 85, died at a local care facility on Tuesday, June 7, 2005.
     He was born April 3, 1920, in West Salem, Ill., the second of three 
children to Harry William and Florence (Weber) Markman. The family moved to 
the present family farm east of The Dalles in 1928. 
     He attended grade school at Fairbanks School and graduated from The 
Dalles High School in 1938. He attended Oregon State College on a football 
scholarship and received a degree in civil engineering. Due to the attack on 
Pearl Harbor, his football team played and won the only transplanted Rose Bowl 
game at Duke University.
     He met Anna Stein while they were students at OSC and on Jan. 10, 1942, 
they eloped in Reno, Nev. Following graduation and receiving his commission in 
the Army, he served as a forestry officer in the 798 Engineer Forestry Company 
in Guadalcanal. 
     After the war, they lived in Portland for a year, where he worked as a 
design engineer for the SP&S Railroad. In the fall of 1947, the couple moved 
back to the family farm, where they lived until Mr. Markman’s recent decline 
in health. He remained involved in farming and raising livestock, even after 
he retired in 1990.
     He served on numerous community boards including the Petersburg School 
Board, ESD School Board, Wasco Electric Co-op board of directors, Swine 
Superintendent at the Wasco County Fair, board of directors of the Oregon 
Wheat League Jr. Livestock Show, county committee member for the Farm Service 
Agency, Petersburg PTA and Wahtonka Boosters Club. He received great personal 
satisfaction helping 4-H exhibitors with their projects.
     He was an active member of the First United Methodist Church, Oregon 
Wheat Growers League, Wasco County Cattlemen’s Association, Elks and Masonic 
Lodges, and the OSU Beaver Club.
     Throughout his career, he received various awards, including Conservation 
Farmer of the Year, Livestock Family of the Year and his Oregon State football 
team was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. In his free time, he 
enjoyed “talking farming,” watching sports, especially the OSU Beavers, and 
attending his grandchildren’s activities.
     He is survived by his wife, Anna Markman, The Dalles; his daughter, Celia 
and her husband, Ken Wienholz, Danville, Calif.; his daughter, Karen and her 
husband, Tom Mitchell, Applegate; his son, Jim and his wife, Jenny Markman, 
The Dalles; his son, Bill and his wife, Shelia Markman, The Dalles; his 
daughter, Sharon and her husband, Stacey Behrens, Twin Falls, Idaho; 
grandchildren Christina and Anna Marie Wienholz, Jonathan, Nicholas and Margot 
Markman, Stephanie and Jeffrey Markman, Rebecca and Katelyn Behrens; and 
nephew Michael Powers, Prospect, Ken. 
     He was preceded in death by his brother, Samuel Markman and his sister, 
La Vange Powers.
     Viewing visitations will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell, Sunday, 
June 19, from 2 to 5 p.m.
     Funeral services will be held at The Dalles First United Methodist Church 
at 10 a.m., Monday, June 20, with interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery on Cherry 
Heights Road.
     Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice, 751 Myrtle St., The 
Dalles, OR 97058 or Wasco County 4-H, 400 E. Scenic Dr., Suite 2.278, The 
Dalles, OR 97058.


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/obits/m/markman1078gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/

File size: 4.1 Kb